As of: 06.03.2009General information

The development and consistent realisation of the export initiative is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental task and is carried out jointly with other ministries, their technical agencies or associated institutes and with industrial associations. The development of a network of actors is of particular importance during the initial phase. The initiative will bundle and harmonise support instruments and schemes available in Germany and offered by authorities and industry associations supporting export. By doing so, existing contacts, networks, export instruments, support instruments etc. and the knowledge of the participating actors/institutions will be incorporated into the initiative.

The picture shows the groups and institutions that build the RETech network.

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During an initial phase (June to October 2007) a strategy paper on the development and the implementation of the initiative was drawn up and discussed by the actors/institutions involved at the conference Export Initiative Recycling and Efficiency Technologies (RETech) 2007.

On 11 September 2007 the Federal Environment Ministry hosted this conference in Bonn. This successful launch event in which around 150 experts participated gave important impetus. The initiative aims at providing long-term support for German enterprises regarding the export of recycling and efficiency technologies.


Key:

AA Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt)
   http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Startseite.html
BDE Bundesverband der Deutschen Entsorgungswirtschaft e.V
   www.bde-berlin.de
BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
   http://www.bmbf.de/en/index.php
BMU Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
   http://www.bmu.de/english/aktuell/4152.php
BMWi Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
   http://www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/root.html
BMZ Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
   http://www.bmz.de/en/index.html
bvse Bundesverband Sekundärrohstoffe und Entsorgung e.V.
   www.bvse.de
DIHK German Chambers of Industry and Commerce
   http://www.dihk.de/english/
R&D Institutes Research and Development
GTAI Germany Trade and Invest
   www.gtai.com
GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH,
   http://www.gtz.de/en/index.htm
InWEnt Capacity Building International (Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH)
   http://www.inwent.org/index.php.en
KfW KfW Bankengruppe
   http://www.kfw.de/EN_Home/index.jsp
NGOs Non-governmental organisations
UBA Federal Environment Agency
   http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/index-e.htm
VKS Association of municipal waste management and city cleaning in the Association of Local Utilities (VKU)
    www.vksimvku.de
VDMA German Engineering Federation
   http://www.vdma.org
 
 

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